Bugzilla – Bug 143774
kmail: encoding problems
Last modified: 2006-09-07 14:48:39 UTC
My problem is related to BUG #142548. When I receive multipart mails (for example, digests from mailing lists, where mails with various charsets [iso, utf-8] are contained), these are not displayed correctly. When I set the encoding in the View menu to "Automatic", mails with the charset ISO-8859-15 are not displayed correctly, if I change to encoding to UTF-8, however, mails with the charset=utf-8 are not displayed correctly. The workaround suggested in bug #142548 does not help in my case.
are those digets generated via mime multiparts ? I doubt so. can you copy one of those mails you have problems with into a new mbox folder and then attach it to this bugreport?
Created attachment 75736 [details] copied version of talk-digest mail
I can't answer your first question but I did as you proposed and copied one of the digest mails in an mbox-folder and attached it. Hope that helps.
It's no mime-multipart message - it's a text/plain, not multipart/mixed, says it contains ascii, individual messages are actually encoded in different ways and the original header is shown to indicate the encoding. If it was multipart mixed, each part would indicate its encoding in the mime headers and kmail would be able to display correctly. To fix it, either we enhance Kmail to munge these digests into multipart/mime, or enhance the mailing list manager to output multipart/mime. /me shrugs.
WONTFIX?
ok then. No answer is an answer as well.